"The vastly disproportionate effort that's being recommended towards hiring women smacks of rank tokenism." There are very important distinctions between token

"The vastly disproportionate effort that's being recommended towards hiring women smacks of rank tokenism." There are very important distinctions between tokenism and disproportionate effort. In my view, tokenism is choosing someone for superficial characteristics that have no bearing on their performance. Disproportionate effort gets you a wider pool of applicants from underrepresented groups, which raises the probability of the best applicant being a minority.